Multiple Language Google Sites Website Tips and Support

How to Design a Website in Two or More Languages

There are several options available to the web designer when using Google Sites for a multi-language website:

Create entirely separate Google Site properties and interconnect them
Create one property, but forego the use of the default top navigation if multi-language support is necessary there
Use one property and the top navigation at the primary means of switching languages. For example, a menu section with dropdown options to select a language.

Tips When Organizing This Type of Site

Be cognizant of the universal elements of your Site (navigation, announcement bar, footer, etc.) These are seen site-wide in one predetermined language.
Make it clear for users how to switch languages. Use buttons, graphics and obvious hyperlinks to point language users toward their preferred language site.

An Example of a Bilingual Website on Google Sites

We recently designed the front-facing website for Anheddau, a not-for-profit organization in the UK. Although our understanding of Welsh was close to nil, we were able to develop a solution between the two primary site languages of English and Welsh which would be intuitive for site visitors. https://www.anheddau.co.uk

Instructing Users on How to Set Their Default User or Browser Language

Here are several articles to help web surfers learn of the language tools available to them based on their browser. For simplicity we are showing here options with Google Workspace and Google Chrome.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32047 Change Your Language on the Web
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop Using Google Chrome language support

Google Sites Language Support

We can assume Google Sites is available in all the Admin selectable languages in the Workspace Admin Console which are:

Afrikaans (AF)
Azərbaycanca (AZ)
Bahasa Indonesia (IN)
Bahasa Melayu (MS)
Català (CA)
Český (CS)
Cymraeg (CY)
Dansk (DA)
Deutsch (DE)
Eesti keel (ET)
English (UK) (EN_GB)
English (US) (EN)
Español (ES)
Español (Latinoamerica) (ES_419)
Euskara (EU)
Filipino (FIL)
Français (FR)
Français (Canada) (FR_CA)
Gaeilge (GA)
Galego (GL)
Hrvatski (HR)
Italiano (IT)
IsiZulu (ZU)
Íslenska (IS)
Kiswahili (SW)
Latviešu (LV)
Lietuvių (LT)
Magyar (HU)
Norsk (Bokmål) (NO)
Nederlands (NL)
Polski (PL)
Português (Brasil) (PT_BR)
Português (Portugal) (PT_PT)
Română (RO)
Slovenský (SK)
Slovenščina (SL)
Suomi (FI)
Svenska (SV)
Tiếng Việt (VI)
Türkçe (TR)
Ελληνικά (EL)
Български (BG)
Монгол (MN)
Русский (RU)
Српски (SR)
Українська (UK)
Հայերեն (HY)
עברית (IW)
اردو (UR)
العربية (AR)
فارسی (FA)
नेपाली (Nepali) (NE)
मराठी (MR)
हिन्दी (HI)
বাংলা (BN)
ગુજરાતી (GU)
தமிழ் (TA)
తెలుగు (TE)
ಕನ್ನಡ (KN)
മലയാളം (ML)
සිංහල (Sinhala) (SI)
ภาษาไทย (TH)
ພາສາລາວ (Lao) (LO)
မြန်မာဘာသာ (Myanmar language (Burmese)) (MY)
ქართული (KA)
አማርኛ (Amharic) (AM)
ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee) (CHR)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (Khmer) (KM)
中文 (香港) (ZH_HK)
中文 (简体) (ZH_CN)
中文 (繁體) (ZH_TW)
日本語 (JA)
한국어 (KO)